[PATCH] Add USB to MPC8349 PB platform support
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 18 05:16:42 EST 2006
On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Li Yang wrote:
> On 7/14/06, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> Nack, my expectation is this is all setup by the boot loader.
>
> That's a good wish. ;) However, USB is not required by bootloader. So
> it is not likely to be initialized there. And if we put it in
> bootloader, it will be hard to change the mode(MPH/DR), which requires
> a re-burn of bootloader. It's better that we make sure it's correctly
> configured here.
I disagree. You are coming from this from a board that does
everything under the sun. I'd like to avoid having this type of
initialization in the kernel. There is a whole additional kitchen
sink that could move into the kernel as well.
- kumar
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